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Hi!
My name is John, and I'm a software and web applications developer with eclectic interests and a passion for knowledge.
Although that is a vintage slide rule you see in my portrait, I'm actually mathematically impaired -- numbers just do not click for me. Considering that fact, it's no surprise that I tend to gravitate towards graphic and literary pursuits.
Two of my current web endeavors include The Geckoplex (a long-running site featuring creative games, logic puzzles, and trivia: www.geckoplex.com ), and The Patchwork Soul (a collaborative art project open to the public: www.patchworksoul.com ).
At the moment, I'm occupying space in Los Angeles, California, and I'll probably remain here until either an earthquake or the local population renders it uninhabitable. (Contrary to popular opinion, it is still inhabitable, although gas masks and heavy armaments are recommended equipment.) |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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SETI intrigues me. I feel the chances of contacting our cosmic neighbors within my lifetime is infinitessimally small, but we've got to at least try! The potential payoff is far too huge to ignore. (And if you're wondering, yes, I've bought more than one lottery ticket in my lifetime, and I know the odds on that too. And no, my lack of prowess in math is not a contributing factor!)
If we do establish contact with alien life (and for some bizarre reason they are willing to communicate with a species that sends the Brandenburg Concerto into space but listens to Britney Spears and N'Sync at home), I believe it will be a powerful incentive for humanity to better itself.
Don't be alarmed, Britney... but the day we make contact is the day you're out of a job.
Religious beliefs aside, I think that most of the human race assumes that nobody is watching, so they are free to engage in all sorts of unpleasant behavior. Just like the motorist in the neighboring car blithely picking his nose as he cuts across four lanes of traffic, most of us go about our business here on Earth oblivious to our surroundings.
Would we continue to destroy each other, put selfish concerns ahead of the survival of our species, and soil our collective nest if we knew that our celestial neighbors were muttering "tsk, tsk" and blinking their three eyes in shocked horror?
I think not. |
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